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- Stuntaneous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55id hit it. im sick of clubbing where you can barely get a few sentences out to a person right next to you, its all dance n raunch, ***** that.
- SpectralSounds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47You forgot the alcohol. Alcohol - Idiots + Intelligent conversation = Good times. Unfortunately at most bars its more like: Idiots + Alcohol + Bad music = Lame.
- MiloMindrbindr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24who is going to go sit and listen to a lecture about feminism and then try and pick up chicks? Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
"Hey, you look lovely tonight...."
"Stop objectifying me!" *slap* - erkayae, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Stop intellihating intellidating!
- Shuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Seriously, I never got the point of blaring music in social situations. It just turns the conversation into "HUH...WHAA..." "blah never mind"... "yeah... coool". Rinse and repeat.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"Intellidating," first coined in England in 2002, sprang from "Intelligence Squared," a live discussion series launched by a couple of British moguls whose professed aim was to make debating "sexy."
Sigh, why must everything h ave a catchphrase? Is it not enough to call it a simple date, but to a more intellectual destination? Next thing you know, someone will start a collaborative site about Intellidating, and call it Intellidatosphere (or something else to that effect).
Don't get me wrong, I like intellectual activities, but it feels watered down by calling it something like Intellidating. - bracersofint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13The moment attraction to mind supersedes the physical is the day i get laid. Let me tell you, it's not happening just yet.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14'If you are on Digg, you won't be dating.
Unless Digg starts a dating service. :) - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16The reason for the loud music is that woman are rarely "turned on" by your conversation. A few whispered words and a lot of body language are all that's needed, that and a large amount of confidence.
Picking up women in "intellectual situations" like this appeals to the Digg crowd, because they never understood how to people are able to hook up despite the inability to woo them with your sparkling wit and above average intelligence. I wonder how sucessful people are on these dates. My guess would be not at all. Its still boils down to trying to pick up strangers, and if you can't do that in a club, you can't do it in a museum either. - Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In Toronto the new dating is sex-- is this good or bad?
- airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Fellow nerds, rejoice!
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8There's hope for me yet!
- AntBing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Thats just something ugly people say.
- xenonflash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The girl in the article's last name is Testi!
- TreeHuggerChick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This article made me really wish I lived in New York. Those lectures and debates sound like loads of fun. I'd so go to something like that.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7wives? that's what you think...
- revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13I don't care how smart you are. If you are on Digg, you won't be dating.
- Mylonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't care. The bigger goal of it being 'trendy' to not be an idiot is worth wincing over the current buzzword. We ought to be thrilled when some part of pop culture places value on brains. Thank FSM, right?
- sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh come on, no one caught the Idiocracy quote?
"Carl's Jr. ***** you, I'm eating."
Brought to you by Carl's Jr. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Just like all such fads (like disco or punk) 1) it never visits my neck of the woods, only a few trendy locations in a few big cities like New York or London, 2) poseurs adopt the style but not the substance (such as it is), 3) it becomes a parody of itself and the next fad is to mock and disdain it. I guess the next fad will be to take your date to McDonalds and have rough sex in the parking lot. Huh huh, you talk like a fag, fag. ***** you, I'm eating!
- PsychoticClown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"In the New Dating Scene, the Attraction Is a Beautiful Mind"
Great news for you geeks. You can be fat, ugly and smelly but as long as you follow Diggnation and subscribe to PC mag, you'll get tons of poon.
Somehow, I don't think even geeks are buying this. - Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't know what's worse, a noisy club full of drunken yuppies and bad music or a debate club full of pretentious pseudo-intellectuals who think they have the answer to all of life's problems.
/just gonna stay at home with my girl and a good movie
//"girl" being my guitar
///sad, I know. ;p - TeatimeGrommit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3
@calvmari
Hmmm... Having a thought provoking conversation that doesn't require me to leave my chair, versus going out to dance requiring me to change outfits, pick a club, pay the cover charge...
I'll take girl #2! - there, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ok...I picked myself of the floor. Just to address your point.
My thinking is extremely beautiful people are the way they are because they can afford to be since they are in limited numbers (and therefore in extremely high demand). This gives them the ability to be more selective and thus they spend a great deal of their time batting away persistent dirty drooling old men and first cousins that want to boink them but know its oh so wrong. This is an extremely time consuming process which leads them to all sorts of overhead in their day to day operations.
A geek on the other hand.... nobody gives a crap. Seeing as he has no redeeming physical qualities he is forced to make one of essentially two choices if he ever wishes to get laid by something that doesn't resemble a semi-decayed corpse.
If he's lightly horny the nerd offloads his wasted seed on porn, star trek episodes and like minded geeks to keep him company
If he's unbearably horny he knows he needs to accumulate wealth or fame if he ever wishes to get some decent respect and poontang. In the process he happenstance develops his brain
In a world where beauty is ubiquitous, the supply pressures are eased and everyone is required to compete for other traits. Therefore intelligence is still ultimately going to be the winner in the evolutionary sweepstakes of man. - NycterisA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hopefully hope for me too.
- KamikazeeDriver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Seriously, I never got the point of blaring music in social situations. It just turns the conversation into "HUH...WHAA..." "blah never mind"... "yeah... coool". Rinse and repeat."
I agree with this comment 100%. I like some music, even live music, to be played at my local pub. Often though, it seems they are always cranked up so loud, no one can talk to each other anymore. I goto the pub to socialize, not see just whoever they could find to play on St. Paddy's. - KarthVader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rejoice!!
I'm moving to the east coast! Now I can actually get a date that I can have an intelligent conversation with.
Pshhhh...who am I kidding. All I can look forward to are more lonely nights watching re-runs on TV Land. - sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or it could go the other way? Idiocracy.
- dracostimpy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nope, he's right... I'm pretty much a total neomaxizumdweebie.
- Stay521, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some people just like to dance. You can go to a club without dry humping strangers. My boyfriend and I go to museums and plays together, but are also able to have fun at a bar/club with friends. If it's just the girls, we go to a clubs because we like to dance (and okay, I'll admit, flaunt ourselves while we're young and hot enough to do so)--not because we're looking to be molested by drunk guys. Then again, we also tend to get together and watch the latest discovery channel special (does anyone else remember how much "Raising the Mammoth" sucked?). FYI...it's okay to have fun in different ways depending on your mood.
- goosepillows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The music played in a bar/club is to induce drinking. If I can't hear what you say, I won't waste time talking trying to have a conversation. Make mine a double.
- helinism, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why all the moaning about loud music? Since when did anyone go clubbing to look for a meaningful relationship?!?!
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Though it may not be as fun as this article, I recommend keeping tabs on what's going on in the closest University/Community College. Guest speakers and professors give some good talks in after hours conferences.
- revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@dlebar04
I guess you didn't get it. I was only making fun of a popular stereotype. - ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I completely agree with you. But as with any cultural movement, it eventually becomes too popular and then is no longer hip.
- there, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LMAO
- rac3r5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not a big fan of clubs either. I don't get how they all try to be so classy and want you do dress really well with dress shoes, no hat etc but inside everyone is getting drunk and dry humping each other on the dance floor. The last thing I want to do is go out with a girl who is dry humping some guy she met 5 mins ago. Looking for a girl in a club is just like going through a meat market, nothing more, nothing less. You can't engage in a conversation cause the music is really loud or u don't know how drunk they are. Its easier for me to meet people at small house parties.
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is what ugly people do.
- Kallius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A beautiful mind might be attractive, but at the end of the night, the buff / rich guy is still going to have the best chance of getting laid.
- iffypop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There was nothing in The Game about this. Help!
- ellecon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh sure, the guy will think you're fabulous until you mercilessly crush him like a grape during your academic argument/debate. In my personal experience, a man likes intelligence in a woman so long as it doesn't surpass his own intelligence (this categorical statement is not an argument, just an observation)
:) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 The reason for loud music in clubs is that 99% of all club owners are morons. It would be pretty simple to keep the music loud by the Dance floor and easy to talk over everywhere else but no one gives a crap so they make the same stupid clubs they went to when they were young.
- Darkside2984, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Secret-women don't date you for your mind, they marry you for your mind. Get off your fat, lazy asses and go to a gym and learn how to talk to women. Hot Pockets, Doritos, Mountain Dew and WoW are what is standing in your way to getting laid. I assume at least some of you have careers already, if you don't have that... keep digging your life away.
- fluidfoundation, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6that and boobs.
- YevS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Action speaks louder than words. Let your body do most of the conversation and you cant go wrong even if you are saying nothing.
Saying that, if you are visibly ill (obease, sweaty, tired), are not well groomed or displaying bad taste you will get nowhere purely because of natural selection.
Conversation is really not that big of a deal. I use conversation to get vital information on my date, not to get her in bed with me. It is very unlikely you will both be equaly interested in (insert "intelligent" activity here) . The likelyhood is 1 of you will be very bored and it will show...
Intelligence is not the sole factor women are after just as big breasts is not the sole factor men are after. You need to put forward your entire package, this includes good humour, style, hygine, physical condition, stamina... The list goes on.
Saying that, if you can impress a girl without "aid" such as alcohol, drugs or music you will score more points. It is merely a display of your skill, how you can best display it varies largly from person to person. This is why dating advice hardly ever works.
You need to look at yourself and see what works for you. For me its trendy bars, road trips, picnics and dinner at my place... I would be too bored to impress anyone at a museum, and the kind of women that are impressed by that would bore me in return. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Eventually they will create brain-enlargement implants for women.
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Fabulous, the ever popular "honey, why don't you take me out to dance anymore" will shift to "honey, why don't we have deep thought provoking conversations about the world anymore".
- there, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2 All things being equal a beautiful body and face is a wonderful thing and usually preferable for a mate but as the cliche says... it's whats inside that counts.
Beauty is indeed skin deep. I've even observed that extremely attractive people tend to be very superficial and flighty (not always the case but often enough to be a noticeable trait). I'm not passing a moral judgment here and I'm sure there is some natural evolutionary reason for this. I'm also pretty sure intellect was natures equalizer for less attractive folks. Again just because someone is less attractive doesn't necessarily make them smarter or someone beautiful dumb... but exactly how many of histories brilliant scientists have been particularly attractive? (my guess is their beautiful peers were too busy getting laid :)
In the not too distant future I imagine advanced forms of cosmetic surgery will offset any advantages the birth lottery endowed to naturally beautiful people and intelligence will rule supreme in the match making process. The geeks will have the last laugh. - bprice57, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1this is ***** dumb, most the chicks i know would not think a museum is a cool date. i have never had a problem in a bar, are you ***** kidding me, a bar is the easiest way to pick up a girl. you just cant be an ***** and spend some money.
- lebaige, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Well doesn't this sound boring.
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